Dear Shirley!What a wonderful post! We had so much fun seeing our peripatetic boater!!! You made us laugh until we cried!!! Being good Catholic girls, it was priceless that the hat paused to pay respect to the Madonna! It was cheeky of you to put the hat on the Mayor's door!! We were half expecting it to show up on Sir Digbert Fanshaw Brownshaw. (And by the way, we think he would look marvelous in it!) Thank you so much for taking the time in your inimitable Shirley way to let us know the hat arrived safely! We are keeping an eye out for it along our eastern shores in case it gets blown back across the pond!Cheers and thanks to you!Sheila and SherrillThe Twinnies!

Now all you have to do is book a week-end away at the French equivalent of the Henley Regatta - I'm sure that "He Indoors" would be only too pleased to arrange that. There may even be a few brocantes in the area at the same time...

Oh my gosh, so funny, I love your hat and it's little whirlwind trips.I've been so busy and was in the New England part of our country for a bit of antiquing. There is nothing like it, well, except, FRANCE.